Metaphor and political discourse : analogical reasoning in debates about Europe
- Title
- Metaphor and political discourse : analogical reasoning in debates about Europe / Andreas Musolff.
- Published by
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 210 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Drawing on a very large bilingual corpus, Andreas Musolff analyses the distribution of 'metaphor scenarios' in more than a decade of public discourse on European integration, elucidating differences in UK and German attitudes and argumentation. The corpus analysis leads to a refinement of cognitive metaphor theory by systematically relating conceptual, semantic and argumentation levels and incorporating the historical dimension of metaphor evolution. Finally drawing on examples of metaphor negotiation and on a reassessment of Hobbes's concept of metaphor in Leviathan, he highlights the ethical dimension of metaphor in politics."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : metaphor and politics -- 2. Conceptual domains and scenarios -- 3. Analogical argument in political discourse -- 4. Corpora and the semantics of metaphor -- 5. Europe as a body politic -- 6. Discourse history in a metaphor corpus -- 7. Metaphor negotiation -- 8. Metaphor as deception -- 9. Open and closed metaphor scenarios -- Index : metaphor scenarios and their conceptual elements.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and indexes.